My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1 is going on sale! The paperback price is dropping permanently this week to $34.99.
The ebook will be on sale from April 9-16, starting at 14.99 (40% discount!) and increasing incrementally back up to 24.99. Get your copy now!
I’m still working on the extended Lincoln lineage book, but I ran across a story of loss among the Lincoln family of Mills County in 1896.
Scarlet fever took three of George Washington Lincoln’s children in March of that year.
Read about the family’s bad week in March at Medium.
Whether they were created by marriage alliances or political arrangements, names were important legacies to medieval aristocratic English families. They laid claim to lands, castles, positions of prestige, and/or lordships, even more so than they laid claim to their own children.
Read more about Aristocratic Pendulum and Effects on Lineages and Names in GenTales.
Now available from Lulu is Cousins of Nunney Castle!
Another part of the Lincoln that will be in my next genealogy book includes George Martin who, according to his mother’s headstone, died in Shanghai in 1867.
How did an American end up in Shanghai shortly after the Civil War? I answer that in GenTales on Substack.
On Medium I recently asked, Who was Cornelia Martin? And in answering that question, I found a good example of the type of loss suffered by families in 19th century America.
While working on an upcoming book on the Lincoln line of Windham, Connecticut, I found the children of Nathaniel Martin listed in his will. I was able to find his daughter Cornelia’s birth record, but then she’s gone.
I couldn’t find any other vital records, though her siblings’ fates were all well documented. But I did find a woman of the same name in an asylum in Vermont. Was that her?
I’ve written before about the Lincolns of Windham – in today’s Substack, I highlight the extremes one Lincoln family of Windham reached in loss and longevity.
New in GenTales on Medium, I offer a case study in carefully navigating family stories and anecdotal evidence. The myth of Pocahontas’ daughter Ka-okee has been the subject of debate for 20 years. Which is part of the problem. In 400 years of history, we only just now learn about a child? Read more in GenTales.
Happy New Year from Aliconia Publishing! As we look back at 5 years of online and book publishing, there’s a lot to read.
This year saw the publication of volume 2 of My Lineage from the Roots Up as an Amazon paperback and ebook, as well as Cousins of Nunney Castle, a Prater-specific genealogy available only in ebook format from more than a dozen electronic purveyors.
A second Substack newsletter was also added to the repertoire. The newest addition highlights where it can be found over at GrossHumanBody.
The other publications – ebooks, paperbacks, and newsletters – are all outlined on the Publications page.
In 2024, a Lincoln lineage book is planned for completion, as well as the postponed fiction release from AP Neal (which may be Vella format – information forthcoming in the new year!). We also have several new writers contributing to GenTales on Medium.
I’m looking forward to another year of writing and reading and hope you are, too! #ReadMoreBooks
-Alicia (Founder, Editor)
The Lincoln line of my family had already been documented by the time I was the one doing the research. My grandmother had joined DAR via John Lincoln before I was born. In our passed down notes, his wife was always given as Anna Martin Stowell (or Anna M. Stowell or simply Anna Stowell) and there was a bit of time where it wasn’t clear if it was a middle name (likely from her maternal line) or a previous marriage that gave her the two-barrel moniker. Eventually, it got sorted, and her first marriage came to light. Here’s what we know about her now.
Read about the marriages and children of Anna Martin (b. 1725) on Substack.